英语词汇socratic irony的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Socratic irony; Socratic method. By feigning ignorance, Socrates led his audience into traps, easily defeating them in ar- gument, and this pretended ignorance has since been known as Socratic irony. The great Greek philosopher also developed the inductive Socratic method, conducting a cross-examination by questions and answers carefully designed to impart knowledge, or to evoke knowledge from those who may have believed they were unknowing. Socrates was born about 470 b.c., the child of a sculptor and a midwife. After receiving a good education and completing a tour of military service in which he was distin- guished for his bravery, he devoted his life to the investigation of virtue, justice, and purity. His profound spiritual influence led him to be called the philosopher who “brought down phi- losophy from the heavens to earth” and he liked to call himself “the midwife of men’s thoughts,” but he left behind no writings and his work is known primarily through the Dialogues of Pla- to. Condemned to death by the Athenian government in 399 b.c. for neglecting the old gods, introducing new ones, and corrupting youth, Socrates was forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock. “The hour of departure has arrived,” he said at the last, “and we go our separate ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is the better, God only knows.” See henpecked; xanthippe.

词汇	socratic irony
词源	Socratic irony; Socratic method. By feigning ignorance, Socrates led his audience into traps, easily defeating them in ar- gument, and this pretended ignorance has since been known as Socratic irony. The great Greek philosopher also developed the inductive Socratic method, conducting a cross-examination by questions and answers carefully designed to impart knowledge, or to evoke knowledge from those who may have believed they were unknowing. Socrates was born about 470 b.c., the child of a sculptor and a midwife. After receiving a good education and completing a tour of military service in which he was distin- guished for his bravery, he devoted his life to the investigation of virtue, justice, and purity. His profound spiritual influence led him to be called the philosopher who “brought down phi- losophy from the heavens to earth” and he liked to call himself “the midwife of men’s thoughts,” but he left behind no writings and his work is known primarily through the Dialogues of Pla- to. Condemned to death by the Athenian government in 399 b.c. for neglecting the old gods, introducing new ones, and corrupting youth, Socrates was forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock. “The hour of departure has arrived,” he said at the last, “and we go our separate ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is the better, God only knows.” See henpecked; xanthippe.
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